Cigar-bunching machine



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CIGAR BUNGHING MACHINE. No. 494,930. Patented Apr. 4, 1893.

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F. O. MILLER.

CIGAR BUNUHING MAG'HINB.

No. 494,930. 'PatentedA'p'r. 4, 1893.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT FREDRICK C. MILLER, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

ClGAR-BUNCHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 494,930, dated April4;, 1893.

Application filed August 20, 1892.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, FREDRICK CHARLES MILLER, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Newport, in the county of Campbell and State ofKentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCigar-Bundling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The subject of my invention is a cigar launching machine in which longfiller cigars can be readily made, said machine being adapted for simplemanual feed and consisting essentially of a filler carrier having abottomless pocket a fixed table, forming a temporary bottom for thepocket while in filling position and having a space or aperture locatedbeneath the bottom of the pocket when the carrier is retracted anoperating cam, racklever, pinion and toothed segment gearing with a rackon the filler carrier to impart extended reciprocating movement'to thesaid carrier to advance and retract the pocket; bunch-rolling mechanismbeneath the table; a horizontally oscillating bunch receiver; andplungers serving to disoh arge the fillers from the carrier pocket andthe bunches from the bunch receiver, the whole operating in timemovements as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings:Figure I is a plan view of a machine,illustrating the invention. Fig. II is a sideview of the same.

A represents a filler carrier formed'with a bottomless pocketa andhaving a reciprocating rectilinear movement upon a fixed bed or table B,between guides h The fixed table B forms a temporary bottom for thepocket a when the filler carrier is retracted so as to bring its pocketa into the filling position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. I. Whenadvanced beyond the end of the fixed table 8 as shown in full lines thebottom of the pocket at is opened and it is in discharging position.

The reciprocating movement of the filler carrier A is imparted by a cam0 through the medium of a rack-lever D the rack D of which gears with asegment pinion 6 upon the heel of a toothed segment E which gears with arack A on the carrier A to impart an extended reciprocating movementthereto so as to bring the pocket into the filling position indicated indotted lines in convenient reach Serial No. 448,613. (No model.)

of an operator at the side of the machine and when filled move it todischarging position beneath the plunger F. The rotary cam C is carriedby a shaft 0 which is preferably driven by a clutch pulley C Theoperating shaft C also carries rotating cams H I J K. The revolving camH actuates a bell-crank lever h connected by a link It to a rod F guidedin a vertical path and carrying plungers F, F the former serving toeject the filler from the filler pocket a and deposit it in the bight orpocket of the rolling apron 9 while the plunger F serves to dischargethe previously formed bunch and deposit it in the mold N as hereinafterdescribed; The cams I J actuate rocking levers 71,3', respectively, anda third rocking lever j fulcrumed at 7' is actuated by a rocking cam Jof the shaft of the lever j. The bunch rolling apron 9 rests incustomary manner upon a convex rolling table 10 and is attached at itsrespective ends to the upper extremities of the rocking levers 1i and jthe cams I and J being suitably formed to draw and relax the rollingapron 9 at the proper times to permit the intermediate leverj actuatedby a suitably formed rotary cam J and having at its extremity a rollerto press the bight of the apron around the cigar filler which has beendeposited on a binder upon the apron in customary manner, roll the sameupon the convex rolling table 10, and discharge the finished bunch overthe edge of the said table. The levers ',j are kept in contact with thefaces of operating cams I J by tension springs d, j respectively. Thisbunch rolling mechanism is described more in detail in Letters PatentNo. 416,117, granted to me November 26, 1889. The finishedbunch as it isdischarged from the rolling table 10, is caught by a bunch receiver Lhaving oscillating movement upon the vertical shaft 1 by The abovemechanism actuates the filler carrier A the plungers F, F the bunchrolling apparatus and the oscillating bunch receiverLin time movementsas described. An automatic device is employed to communicate a step bystep movement to the mold N so as to bring the successive matrices inposition to receive a bunch. This consists of a rack bar 0 upon whichthe mold N is mounted, actuated by a reciprocating pawl Q, which ispivoted to a rocking arm R upon the rock shaft d of the lever D.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

I A cigar bunch machine constructed substantially as herein set forthwith a reciprocatin g filler carrier A provided with a bottomless pocketa fixed bed B beneath the filler carrier forming a bottom for the pocketa when in filling position, the operating cam C and lever D, segmentpinion e and toothed segment E mounted on a concentric pivot and a rackA on the filler carrier operating as herein described to impart anextended reciprocating movement to the said filler carrier, incombination with suitable discharge and bunch rolling mechanism.

FREDRIOK O. MILLER. Witnesses:

H. H. FREY, GEO. F. SUMNER.

